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Bulgaria reports 1,614 new Covid-19 cases, 81 deaths

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1,614 is the number of newly registered coronavirus cases out of 45,925 tests performed in the country in the past day, a positivity rate of 3.5%, Single Coronavirus Information Portal data show. 80.2% of the new infections are among the unvaccinated.

The highest number of new infections has been registered in Sofia 363, in Plovdiv - 169, and in Varna – 116.

4,511 patients are being treated in hospital, 537 of them in intensive care. 88.4% of the 406 new hospital admissions are among the unvaccinated.

81 have died, 93.8% of the Covid-related deaths are among the unvaccinated. 1,416 is the number of recoveries reported. 95,207 is the number of active cases in the country.

17,668 doses of vaccine against coronavirus have been administered in the country over the past 24 hours, 1,868,873 people in Bulgaria are now double-vaccinated, and 213,382 have had their booster shots. 



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